Centers & Institutes

SEAS supports 11 research centers and institutes, as well as 55 research facilities and laboratories. 

• Center for Biomimetics and Bioinspired Engineering (Director: Dr. Michael Plesniak)
• Center for Intelligent Systems Research (Director: Dr. Samer Hamdar)
• Cyber Security and Privacy Research Institute (Director: Dr. Costis Toregas)
• Environmental and Energy Management Institute (Co-director: Dr. Jonathan Deason)
• GW Institute for Nanotechnology (Director: Dr. Michael Keidar)
• Institute for Computer Graphics (Director: Dr. James Hahn)
• Institute for Crisis, Disaster and Risk Management (Director: Dr. Joseph Barbera)
• Institute for Massively Parallel Applications and Computing Technologies (IMPACT) (Director: Dr. Tarek El-Ghazawi)
• Institute for MEMS and VLSI Technology (Director: Dr. Mona Zaghloul)
• NSF Center for High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing (GW Director: Dr. Tarek El-Ghazawi)